On 18 Mar 2004 at 14:20, Dan Rupert wrote: > Regarding the part of this thread dealing with playback, this is a > technique I began using several years ago & now I incorporate it into > every Finale file I create. > > Simply put, I place all playback notation in an additional staff (or > more if it's a complex playback setup) at the bottom of the file. This > staff always travels with the file but is *hidden* if the file is > printed, of course. > > This has always worked much faster for me than worrying about hiding > layers & what will affect spacing etc. In addition, this staff is > where I place any special MIDI instructions or staff expressions which > deal with playback tempos & ritards etc., but aren't intended to be > viewed in the *unhidden* part of the file. > > I also use this staff to hold text notes to myself. Works great for > me.
That's the method I long ago abandoned in favor of blank notation, because it meant I didn't have to worry about non-visible data having an effect on how things came out. I just finished converting everything to the blank notation method a couple of years ago, and, indeed just discovered an unconverted file today. Of course, I didn't do it very efficiently. I used a single staff for all the instruments, and a different layer for each instrument (my repertory is piano quartets, so this takes care of most of what I needed; actually, in most cases I had two hidden staves, because the piano could need different playback in both hands, which gives me a total of 6 layers for other instruments), but at the time I started this I wasn't too swift with MIDI and had each layer going to its own independent track, not the same tracks as the main staves. And, foolishly, I only put the ornament realizations in the other staves, so I had to have little expressions that turned off playback in the display layer and turned it back on. Yes, it wasn't very bright. It might be easiest for me to go back to that method at this point, though. However, I still don't like the idea of having hidden staves. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
